Bottle-sealing process.



K. L. KITHIL.

BOTTLE SEALING PROCESS.

APPLICATION FILED MAE. 6, 1912 1 ,O76,?70, Patente 0011.28, 1913.

Inventor Witnesses Attorneys STATES PATENT Futon.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 28, 1913.

Application filed March 6, 1912. Serial No. 682,038.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, KARL L. Kiri-11L, a citizen of the United States, residing at Morgantown, in the county of Monongalia and State of est Virginia, have invented a new and useful Bottle-Sealing Process, of which the following is a specification.

One object of the present invention is to devise a novel method of sealing a receptacle and producing an outstanding design in the sealing medium.

A further object of the invention is to provide, as an article of manufacture, a receptacle having an outstanding brand or design of novel and improved construction.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of in vention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a receptacle to which an embossed strip has been applied; Fig. 2 is an elevation of the receptacle showing the same subsequent to the application of the sealing medium to the receptacle; Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3-3 of Fi g. 2; and Fig. 4. is a transverse section showing a modification.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a receptacle of any sort, the same in the present instance being shown in the form of a bottle. To the bottle 1 is applied a strip 2. This strip 2, although shown in the form of a scaling strip may be of any con struction and may be placed in any manner upon the receptacle. It may be applied across the cork as shown, or it may be a label or a mere medallion applied to the receptacle at any point upon the surface of the receptacle. The word strip is to be taken as indicating nothing so far as the shape thereof, or its location upon the receptacle is concerned. The strip 2 preferably, although not necessarily, is fashioned from paper, and designs of any desired sort are embossed upon the strip 2, so as to project therefrom, as indicated at 3.

After the embossed strip 2 has been applied to the bottle 1, as shown in Fig. 1, the sealing medium, preferably a quick-drying metallic paint, lacquer or sealing compound of any sort, is applied to the bottle 1, to seal the bottle, and to cover the embossed strip 2. if desired, the bottle 1 may be inverted, and dipped into the sealing medium, the sealing medium adhering to the bottle 1, as shown at at, and eil'ecting a sealing of the bottle. The sealing medium will cover the embossed strip 2, and the embossed designs 3, covered with the sealing medium, will outstand from the strip 2, as indicated at 5. The sealing medium may be of any desired color, and may be of the-same color as the strip 2. Or, if desired, the strip may be of a different color from the sealing medium, whereupon that portion of the sealing medium which covers the strip, will be given a different hue from those portions of the sealing medium which adhere to the bottle 1.

In Fig. 4 the receptacle is denoted by the numeral 6, and to the receptacle 6 is applied the strip 7. Instead of embossing the designs upon the strip, as shown in Fig. 3, the designs may be applied to the strip 7, as indicated at 8, the sealing medium 9 being applied to the strip and to the design as before, as indicated at 9, whereupon an outstanding design will be formed in the sealing medium 9, as indicated at 10.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. The herein described process which con sists in applying to a receptacle, a strip having a projecting design; and applying an opaque sealing medium to the strip and to the receptacle to hold the strip upon the re ceptacle and to cause a distortion of the opaque medium in accordance with the design.

2. The herein described process which consists in applying to a receptacle, a strip having a design mounted thereon and applying a sealing medium to the design, to

the strip and to the receptacle, to hold the design upon the strip, to hold the strip upon the receptacle, and to cause a distortion of the medium in accordance with the design.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as mv own I have hereto affixed m si na- 7 b ture in the presence of two witnesses.

KARL LUD /VIG KITHIL. /Vitncsses:

JAMns N. TIMMERMANN, ALEXANDER Yaw.

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